26 Ely Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Assignment from Edward Mumford of Kington, co. Worcs., blacksmith, and Ann Mumford of Feckenham, co. Worcs., spinster, only child of the said Edward Mumford by Mary (née Pardy) his wife, with the consent of Joseph Smith of Birmingham, ironmonger, executor of Joseph Smith of Stratford-upon-Avon, ironmonger, to John Clerk of Stratford-upon-Avon, yeoman, for £31 1s 0d. (£28 19s 0d. to Edward Mumford and £2 2s 0d. to Joseph Smith) of a term of 1000 years created by a mortgage of 4 April 1694 from Robert Turner, husbandman, and Mary his wife, to George Pardy of Stratford-upon-Avon, brickmaker, of a messuage in Ely Street, then in the tenure of Edward Hartford, alias Hercules, bounded on the west by two messuages in the tenures of Richard Shervington and Moses Hyatt, and on the east by a tenement in the occupation of Joseph Castle; which term of years, on 29 January 1697, was assigned to Joseph Smith of Stratford-upon-Avon, ironmonger, deceased; which messuage is now divided into three tenements in the separate tenures of Edward Tims and Sarah Cooper, with a garden thereto belonging late in the tenure of Mrs. Welchman.